Usher Hall
£955K for Ed Theatres
Second wave of Covid funds announced:
Six Edinburgh organisations have received a total of £955,698 as part of the £5m Performing Arts Venue Relief Fund, the second round of government support, administered by Creative Scotland and announced on Thursday 24 September 2020.
Strictly Tix On Sale
Tickets for Strictly Professionals, Anton & Erin on sale:
Details of how to get ticket for the Strictly Come Dancing – The Professionals’ 2020 tour at Edinburgh Playhouse in June 2020 and the Anton and Erin Usher Hall tickets in March 2020.
Strictly dancers for Edinburgh
Playhouse and Usher Hall dates confirmed:
The Strictly Professionals tour will play the Edinburgh Playhouse in June 2020 while Anton and Erin hit the Usher Hall in March 2020.
Broadway Bound
★★★☆☆ Enjoyable:
Inspired by Broadway and the Big Apple, there’s lots to love in Broadway Bound, a celebration of musical song and dance from the Beyond Broadway Experience.
Muriel Spark: Creme de la Creme
★★★★☆ Literary:
On the eve of the centenary of Muriel Spark’s birth, the Usher hall was packed for Muriel Spark: Creme de la Creme, an evening of readings, reminiscences and a performed reading of the Edinburgh-born author’s only play.
A Christmas Wish 2017
★★★★☆ Christmas Cheer:
The MGA Academy gets right into the Christmas spirit with a selection of the best festive songs in A Christmas Wish at the Usher Hall.
Solidarity with #Paris
Theatres light up Blue, White and Red
Edinburgh venues the Usher Hall and the Playhouse were lit up in the colours of the French tricolour on Saturday night.
EIF, Fringe Open
Lothian Road blocked for EIF opener:
Almost 20,000 people witnessed the opening event of this year’s Edinburgh International Festival when The Harmonium Project lit up the outside of the Usher Hall.
A Christmas Wish 2014
✭✭✭✭✩ Tinsel and tonsils:
Aren’t stage school kids supposed to be annoying? Not the students of Edinburgh’s MGA Academy of Performing Arts, who decked the Usher Hall with A Christmas Wish, raising spirits as they raised funds for Barnardo’s Scotland.
Review – A Christmas Wish
The student body of MGA Academy of Performing Arts wowed a packed Usher Hall in Edinburgh on Saturday night with A Christmas Wish. Martin Gray was lucky enough to be there.
